I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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